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New York Times Gets Blog-like Redesign
The New York Times has redesigned their homepage and website. Anil Dash notes the blog-like style of the new Times layout.
Today, the New York Times launched its site redesign, announced by a prominent editor's note on the homepage. There's a few lessons for bloggers to learn from the redesign, as well as some evidence that the Times itself has been learning from bloggers.
The most prominent change is the new wide page layout, which makes great use of the expanded screen real estate that serious web geeks have available on their displays. A lot has been written about these wider pages recently, but many of the first sites to make smart use of this kind of design have been Movable Type-powered blogs like Gawker Media's Sploid, Paul Scrivens' Whitespace, Kevin Cornell's Bearskinrug, Jason Santa Maria's blog and Khoi Vin's Subtraction. The additional space on the page lets the Times use large and valuable ad units online without compromising the amount of editorial information displayed.
The Times redesign includes a page listing the most blogged stories. If you look at the individual news stories you can see the content is on the left. This is the way many blogs display their content. However, Gawker recently started shifting content to the right on some of their sites -- like Defamer and Valleywag. Even after the redesign there still does not appear to be a list or directory of Times' blogs. Blogspotting writes that more features will come later including an expanded MyTimes feature that will be opened up to the rest of the web. Leonard M. Apcar, the Editor in Chief of NYTimes.com, has a letter to readers about the redesign.
Posted on April 3, 2006
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New York Times Puts New Blog Behind TimesSelect Wall
Gawker reports on the New York Times' launch of a blog called The Opinionator. The blog is written by Chris Suellentrop who tells his readers about the blog in this post.
The legions of loyal Suellentrop.com readers are the last to know: The New York Times has a new blog, "The Opinionator," written by yours truly. It's on Times Select, so if you've been thinking, "Hey, those New York Times columnists are worth only $48.50 a year," I'm here to provide the extra $1.45 in annual value to meet your demand curve. Though Mickey Kaus kindly writes, "Suellentrop's almost worth $49.95 by himself!"
Unfortunately, the blog is locked behind the Times' fee-based TimesSelect service. Only subscribers can see the blog. There are headlines and a few sentences available on the Opinionater's RSS Feed. Corporations often have internal blogs that they don't let the public see but trying to charge for a blog sounds like a new strategy. A few other blogs are discussing the Opinionater here, here, here, here, here and here.
Posted on January 25, 2006
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The New York Times is Blogospheric
It was only a matter of time before the New York Times became active in the blogosphere. The Times has launched an entertainment blog called Carpetbagger and have a real estate blog and a few others planned. The new blog has a designated URL, permalinks and comments. L.A. Observed has a memo from the Times explaining the new blog launches.
We're blogospheric.
Yesterday we launched a genuine, authentic, by-the-book New York Times blog. It's Carpetbagger, by David Carr. It's part of a new movie-awards-season web site called Red Carpet, which includes a bunch of things you won't see in the newspaper, like weekly columns by Joyce Wadler and Caryn James. You'll see a refer on today's front page, which I boldly, if ignorantly, declare to be our first-ever page-1 refer to a web-only feature. At the very least, it's our first-ever page 1 refer to a blog.
Within a few days, we'll put up a real estate blog by Damon Darlin and others. More blogs are in the works. Even more are at the idea stage. We've come late to blogging, obviously, though we've put toes in the water on a number of occasions, as when our movie critics sent running commentary from last year's Cannes film festival.
Micropersuasion pulled this quote from the memo "A blog is nothing more than a piece of technology... We'll use the technology our way."
But Heather Green at Blogspotting says pulling just that quote is unfair:
Wait a minute. That seems a little unfair and seems to portray
the Times as denigrating blogs.
Read the memo yourself (via L.A Observed) to decide if you think
that's the case. But here's the graph that struck me.
"But our new blogs are more than running commentary. Look at
Carr's. It's full of links to film publications and blogs and
web sites. It encourages responses from readers and hopes to
start a lively conversation. Nothing is more important to the
future of our web ambitions than to engage our sophisticated
readers. Blogs are one way to do it."
The mainstream media is starting to get the blogosphere. Corante's Get Real says the Times is getting sort of clueful. More media companies are launching blogs with unique URLs and permalinks. These are better than many of the initial MSM blog launches that lacked permalinks or only lasted for a short time. MSNBC.com told us earlier this week that they have switched to a more weblog-centric model. This is likely to become the trend -- permalinks and direct URLs make it much more likely blogs will be linked to by other bloggers. Bloggers need to be able to link directly to a particular post.
Posted on December 8, 2005
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